Word: kaiserism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Princess Hermine returned to Doom, The Netherlands, after two months in Italy recuperating from an appendectomy, her husband, exiled former German Kaiser Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 78, embraced her on the front steps of the castle, danced...
...rumpus in Czechoslovakia arose entirely from "Germans" who in 1914 were subjects not of the German Kaiser but of the Austrian Kaiser-that is they are Austrians who find themselves and their old homes now in the new state of Czechoslovakia. From the Sudetes Mountains many of them take the name of Sudetendeutsch, and leader of the Sudetendeutsch Partei is pudgy but strenuous Herr Konrad Henlein. He was embarrassed recently by the arrest of his chief henchman, Hans Henrich Rutha, and 16 young men as homosexuals...
...laughing matter are the bombproof and gasproof cellars with which Buckingham Palace has finally been equipped this year while the Royal Family were in Scotland. During the War, by order of Kaiser Wilhelm, his cousins in Buckingham Palace were never bombed, although nearby Trafalgar Square was bombed repeatedly. Still in place, but considered useless against today's heavy bombs, is "the Steel Helmet," a steel net supporting layers of sand bags strung under the roof of Buckingham Palace...
...Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne belongs to Archduke or Kaiser Otto, exiled in Belgium. When experts of the Hungarian general staff advised Admiral Horthy that Ethiopia could not be conquered in a single season by the Italians, as it later was, he scoffed openly and sent them packing, has long made no secret of his pro-Mussolini and pro-Hitler leanings. Startling...
Engaged. Crown Prince Paul of Greece, 35, younger brother of King George; to Princess Frederika Luise, 20, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm of Doorn; in Athens. In July, Prince Paul caused a Government crisis by proclaiming his love for the commoner daughter of a wealthy Athens industrialist. His brother and Premier Metaxas put a stop...